I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 174 - 142: Rushing Over Shouting About Bonds and Friendship_2

Chapter 174: Chapter 142: Rushing Over Shouting About Bonds and Friendship_2

Warhawk laughed exaggeratedly for effect as she began her teasing commentary.

Now that she’d seen various posts on the forum, she was not easily rattled and even habitually threw in a few tongue-in-cheek comments for the sake of the show.

As soon as she clicked on the post,

The content, which was a blend of trash-talking, flame-baiting, fishing for reactions, abstract ideas, and craziness, had both Warhawk and the many viewers in her live chat shouting "what the hell".

This post... It’s like it was written by someone with at least ten years of forum experience, making quite a few viewers in the live chat room unable to help but take an interest in that so-called genius.

Of course, there were plenty of comments teasing too.

[Where do all these geniuses come from? Cheating in online matches is way too easy these days.]

[Yeah, maybe they’re out walking the dog.]

As everyone knows, the most famous AI in the Go World is called AlphaGo.

Thus, in the Go World, it’s customary to refer to AI as "dogs," and when someone cheats using AI to play for them, it’s commonly joked about as "walking the dog."

"I’ve looked at the game records, and it doesn’t seem like ’walking the dog.’"

"This clearly shows a trend of improvement in the game records; it’s indeed outrageous. If someone improves that fast, are they even human?"

"But the best game record I see so far is just so-so, barely reaching the level of an Amateur Sixth Rank, which is about equivalent to a Professional Second Rank."

"About the same as me, I guess."

After looking at the discussion in the chat, Warhawk offered her professional evaluation.

After all, despite being one of the lower-ranked active professional players, she was at least a Professional Second Rank.

Having given her comments, for the show, she bragged a bit, quite arrogantly.

But as someone infamous for being abstract and noobish, her statement was naturally met with a wave of skepticism from her viewers, like a tide.

[Equal footing? Dare to brag with your 2-16 record?]

[Don’t talk nonsense, the validity of Old Zhan’s 2-16 record is there for all to see.]

[Surviving an endurance match against the former top female player, who was getting old and losing stamina, and bullying the noobs when the current top female player was still a kid, top-level time assassin indeed.]

[Forget the time assassin stuff, aren’t you the one who beat two reigning top female players?]

[Emperor Ying is invincible! Respect!]

[Didn’t you see that so-called genius is named ’Hand of Eagle’? Clearly is also a fan. Old Zhan has won without even playing.]

Looking at the full screen of teasing,

Warhawk slammed her desk and said seriously, "It seems I need to really show off my skills."

"Go Network, activate!"

Saying this,

Warhawk opened her Go Network account and searched for that genius mentioned in the forum.

She quickly found that this "Come on, Hand of Eagle" was engaged in a live matching game. She glanced at his past game records and noticed that the genius was playing his second game since logging on.

"The forum says after he plays three live matching games, he immediately goes off to play against AI, as if he’s only reluctantly playing against humans to unlock AI."

"I might not be able to encounter him now," Warhawk muttered to herself.

Nevertheless, she decisively decided to send a private message and a fight challenge to this genius.

On Go Network, only professional players can send game challenges to other players, to prevent verified professional players from being harassed every day by all kinds of people.

And even though she, Warhawk, may be a noob, she is still a Professional Second Rank who passed the Level 8 AI on Go Network, and could once in a while give and take with the Level 9 AI, which corresponds to the entire range of professional First Rank to Ninth Rank skills.

So, naturally, she was qualified to issue a challenge.

...

At this moment, Chen Yun, who was tormenting his opponent with his "Flying Blade" technique on the game board, was bored waiting for his opponent to think.

Upon receiving a private message notification, he clicked to take a look.

[2-16 Fearless]: [Let’s duel! Betting on the bond that I have with Go, I won’t lose!]

After seeing this over-the-top message,

Chen Yun fell into silence, feeling somewhat like a Demon King being bewilderedly faced with the protagonist’s group powered by bonds and friendship.

But a Demon King’s bewilderment is due to being unable to win.

He was simply speechless.

After a long silence, looking at the sender [2-16 Fearless] with the professional symbol in their nickname, he chose to accept the challenge.

After playing against A Mao and A Gou for so long, he was tired, and it was just right that today, before leveling up, he would play his third match to test the strength of a professional Go player.

...

Meanwhile, in Warhawk’s live broadcast room,

As Chen Yun accepted the invitation, the atmosphere began to undergo dramatic fluctuations.

"Look, look, he’s accepted the challenge! I’m going to obliterate him!"

"Good, his match is over! Let the game begin!"

"No need to panic; against someone who doesn’t use ’dog tricks,’ we’ll just use a little AI shock to fight back."

"Hiss... I’ve never seen this kind of counter approach, but it seems to be somewhat troublesome, haha."

"Don’t look at me like I’ve made a blunder, actually this move will prove to be beneficial in the long run!"

"No way... Impossible!"

"Holy shit, it’s the hundred-move Dragon Slaughter!!!"

"Mommy, I wanna go home~"

The Go match had lasted less than forty minutes before Zhan Ying, a Professional Second Rank player, was decisively defeated by the hundred-move Dragon Slaughter.

It wasn’t just a loss.

It was an utterly crushing defeat.

The barrage of comments in Warhawk’s live broadcast room changed as often as the Parisian media during Napoleon’s restoration: one minute saying one thing, the next someone entirely different.

[The weirdo from Go Network doesn’t know the dog tricks?]

[The eccentric with the strange moves is making Old Zhan deeply contemplate!]

[The so-called prodigy despicably seizes the moment Old Zhan makes a blunder!]

[The prodigy starts sounding the charge!]

[Chess World’s genius is slaughtering dragons!]

[The almighty Emperor of Chess World, Emperor Ying, has completed the hundred-move Dragon Slaughter, returning to his faithful live broadcast room today!]

As the game quickly came to an end,

The mood in the live broadcast room turned, and viewers knowledgeable about Go began to praise the genius for the many brilliant moves in the recent match.

Meanwhile, Zhan Ying fell silent, questioning life.

Even though he had blundered a few times with some baffling moves,

The strength of the opponent was somewhat incomprehensible.

The opponent...

They never used those new opening sequences derived from AI known as ’dog tricks’, yet their unorthodox methods always turned out to be surprisingly useful.

Different from AI, but their seemingly endless power was just the same.

Moreover, their playing style was unlike any chess player she knew. As strong and as unfamiliar as the early days of AI, it was as if they had come from another world.

This made Zhan Ying, who initially thought this was merely a decent amateur trying to play the prodigy, suddenly entertain a doubt:

Could it be...

This person really was a Go prodigy just beginning to show their edge?

She could sense that the opponent seemed to be looking down on the game from a much higher place.

Such a person...

Was simply a natural Chess Saint!

After much thought,

Zhan Ying decided to start another round of invitations.

But she found that the genius had already started a match with an AI and was ignoring her private messages.

The prompt from the Go Network interface even popped up a notification: [The user you are messaging has blocked you, you will not be able to send them any messages nor view their information.]

She couldn’t help but stare wide-eyed in stunned silence.

Meanwhile, the live broadcast room erupted in laughter at the entertainment, joking about the turn of events.

[Damn, is someone too noobish and got despised by the opponent?]

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Chen Yun, who had just blocked that recent opponent, was now somewhat reluctantly playing against a Level 8 AI, trying to soothe a slight frustration within.

What the hell? Even professionals pollute the database?

Or did someone use a professional’s account?

While thinking about that last game, Chen Yun quickly shook his head.

Other games could be reviewed to learn and to extract the essence.

But let’s forget about that last one.

The opponent’s two or three unexpected blunders left him completely baffled, and the more he tried to understand, the more he felt he was walking into madness.

He just couldn’t understand the meaning behind the opponent’s moves.

Chen Yun had to admit, in a sense, that opponent was rather formidable.

To avoid letting that guy yelling about bonds and friendship further pollute the database,

Chen Yun decisively chose to block the professional chess player.

After playing against the Level 8 AI for a while, and feeling somewhat better, Chen Yun turned off the computer.

Looking at the time, which was already nearing nine-thirty in the evening,

Chen Yun began the evening routine according to the short-term plan he had set up.

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